Toshiba says: unifying DVD formats may prove too difficult

Exactly one week after getting some good news on the
prognosis of a solution to the impending
Blu-ray/HD-DVD format war, it now appears
there's some bad news — Toshiba's top negotiator, Yoshihide Fujii, was quoted as saying that unifying the formats
"would be extremely difficult at this stage." His comment comes after a weekend of negotiations between Toshiba (in the
HD-DVD camp) and Sony/Matsushita (Blu-ray) — which we're picturing as the ultimate geek summer camp with Toshiba and
Sony facing each other across the lake and duking it out via tug-of-war and canoe racing — and couldn't be confirmed by
a Toshiba spokesperson. Regardless, they appear to be continuing talks, but it's not the best of signs for peace in the
home theater.